When a parent needs nursing home care, families are handed a maze of rules, myths, and deadlines. We replace the maze with a plan: designed by an attorney, executed by Zoom, anywhere in Florida.
That is how most families meet Medicaid: no warning, no roadmap, and a business office asking how the bill will be paid. The rules are federal, the application is state, the deadlines are real, and the myths (you must spend everything first, the state takes the house, it is too late to plan) cost families their savings.
This is legal work. It deserves a lawyer, not a form-filling service.
Flat fees, quoted per applicant. You will know your investment before we begin, and it will never change because your family asked good questions.
For families who see long-term care on the horizon. We restructure assets and documents ahead of the five-year lookback so that a future application is a formality, not a fight. The least expensive plan, because time is on your side.
Care is needed now and a social worker or facility is handling the application itself. We design the legal strategy behind it: asset protection, spousal protections, timing, and facility negotiations, so the application they file actually works.
No one is helping. We are. Strategy, restructuring, the application itself, communications with the nursing home and the state, and every step through approval. If a fair hearing becomes necessary, it is quoted separately.
Not every elder needs a nursing home. We plan for at-home care, assisted living programs, and VA benefits for veterans and surviving spouses, often in combination, so care matches the life your parent actually wants.
Medicaid is state law, not county law. There is no reason your lawyer needs to be down the street, and every reason your children in Tampa, Naples, and New Jersey should be in the same meeting.
Siblings join from anywhere. Decisions get made once, together, with the attorney present.
Every meeting has a purpose and a written record, so no one relitigates last week.
From Pensacola to Key West, the plan, the fee, and the standard of care are the same.
Your matter is handled by a Florida lawyer, not routed to a processing center.
One hour. No jargon. The five things every Florida family should know before a parent needs long-term care, taught by the attorney who wrote the plan.
Evan W. Turk, Esq. is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Turk Law Group, PLLC in West Palm Beach. Since 2008, his practice has centered on estate planning, elder law, and asset protection for Florida families, built on a career that began in financial services, where he learned that the best legal plan is one the family's finances can actually live with.
Medicaid By Design brings that philosophy to long-term care: fixed fees, family-wide meetings, and strategies designed before they are needed, statewide by Zoom.
Evan is the author of Asset Protection by Design, the book behind this practice's name and its method.
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